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Yes they are.
The new phylogenetic classification system seeks out to classify by relationship and not solely charecteristics as the old classification system.
This means, if birds are more closely related to other dinosaurs, than all dinosaurs are to eachother, they will necessarily be dinosaurs themselves. Birds are more closely related to theropods, than they are to sauropods, and as such we can conclude them to be dinosaurs.
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∙ 10y ago
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∙ 10y agoThere's some guesswork here, but ALL birds probably evolved from small feathered dinosaurs who were cousins to the Velociraptors. We don't know which was the lineal ancestor of birds. Small, delicate skeletons don't supply the best fossils, but there's still hope that one may turn up.
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∙ 14y agoIf you're referring to Ducky from "The Land Before Time" series, she is a Saurolophus.
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∙ 12y agoDucky was a hadrosaur.
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